Aperture 2 Frustration 27 "Remove From Album" disabled

I created an album of selected images. I want to remove some of the images. I select a few and try Images > Remove From Album. The option is disabled. Why? It's not a Smart Album.

I selected several images from the result of search criteria. Most of them are stacked images. I only want one of each stacked image in my album, which sounds like a reasonable thing to do, but all images are copied into the album.
Then I tried removing the unwanted images from the album, but if they're stacked, the "Remove from Album" option is greyed-out.
It doesn't seem to represent how one would do things with a real "album". I may have a "stack" of photographs, held together with a rubber band. I can easily slip a selected photograph out from the stack and stick it in the album - shouldn't that be how Aperture works?
Also:
When creating a book, you can set an option to "include stack picks only". For example, if you wanted to create two books, one of colour photos and one of black and white Versions of the same photos, this "include stack picks only" is not very helpful as you'd have to change the stack pick for each of the books, or choose to see all the photographs without the option to "include stack picks only".
This all doesn't seem intuitive at all - am I missing something fundamental?
Thank you.

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